County pages, broken links, private sites?

County pages, broken links, private sites?

I've been away from genealogy for awhile, and trying to figure out what's going on.

Recently found some county pages and some project pages, (like counties in the cemetery transcript project), that look very nice, but all the buttons for resources, maps, information, etc., are broken links or lead to a blank page.

I was told on another site they were moved to allegedly 'protect' free genealogy. If that's true, then why isn't there at least an "update" on the page with a notation about where people can access the new "private" website? I've found a couple that did, most dont', and Googling isn't finding some of them.

Another question..Who makes/made the decision to move the information? More than one person has provided information and research to those pages so it would be easily accessible here, all in place....not hidden somewhere else.

Asking out of curiosity and concern, No intentional disrespect for people's choices.